The passenger of the KLM Dutch airline, flying the Amsterdam flight - Beijing, wounded himself and the second pilot. According to AP, he attacked him with a sharp object. The rowdy was stopped and neutralized by crew members, as well as some passengers. The incident occurred last Sunday, January 3, but it became known only now, when the carrier made the corresponding statement.

In the north of Moscow, as a result of the fire, the hostel building, located at Mikhalkovskaya Street, was partially collapsed, house 34. Building 1. The fire area is already 150 square meters. According to preliminary data, one person was injured as a result of a fire, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the capital's head of the Ministry of Emergencies. “20 people were evacuated from the building. One of them was injured.

The Russian youth hockey team reached the final of the World Cup, which takes place in Helsinki, defeating the US team with a score of 2: 1. The team led by Valery Bragin missed the goal in the first period, recouped and pulled out the victory in the second twenty -minute. Pavel Kraskovsky and Yegor Korshkov distinguished themselves as part of Russians. The Americans were thrown by Christian Dvorak.

The Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines stopped flying to Russia and back due to visa problems. Air Communication is suspended until January 12, the company's website says. PEGASUS AIRLINES is not able to get visas for crew members, explains Reuters. Earlier, from January 1, 2016, weather conditions were called as a probable reason for the termination of flights .

The next mass poisoning of surrogate alcohol occurred in Novosibirsk. Five bodies - two men and three women without a specific place of residence were removed from the collector on Staytovy Street. Another person fell into intensive care with a severe poisoning.

Russian tour operators who are developing new domestic tourism routes will provide assistance - they will be allocated subsidies, and the government will support "first of all," said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He also noted that in 2015, about 50 million people traveled around the country, and called for upgrading places of rest in the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.

Conflicting information is received about the situation in the Ukrainian city of Genichesk, the mayor of which, due to problems with gas supply, allegedly turned to the President of Russia for help. The head of NAC Naftogaz Ukraine Andrei Kobolev denies reports of Russian gas supplies to the city on the border with Crimea, but in Genichesk it was confirmed. Kobolev calls information about the supply of fuel to the Genichesk fake.

"The economic prospects for the coming 2016 are already largely predetermined by how the country ended last year. It ended poorly. This is the first important circumstance. Because the Russian economy is quite cumbersome, institutionally not very well organized and, thus, very inertial. If 2015- Since it was a year of conservation of the economic crisis, it will be very difficult to reverse this situation in the new year, and frankly, impossible.

In Transbaikalia, preferential rates for the use of forests are installed for Chinese entrepreneurs, Flashsiberia reports with reference to the head of the Greenpeace Russia forest department Alexei Yaroshenko. "The regional authorities begin to approve the coefficients for determining the costs of ensuring the protection, protection and reproduction of forests.

Two Russians died on Monday, January 4, in the Lithuanian bus, which followed from St. Petersburg to Prague through Poland, TASS reports with reference to the Polish RMF FM radio station. As noted, the incident occurred at about eight in the morning local time (about 10:00 in Moscow). The Poland’s emergency services received a call to the S8 highway in the Lodzian Voivodeship due to fainting of one of the passengers.

The US Presidential Administration Barack Obama published measures to limit the turnover of weapons, despite the long-term opposition of the congress, Reuters reports citing the White House press service. According to the Obama plan, all weapons will have to have appropriate licenses and will be required to check the biographies of their customers. In addition, the special unit of the FBI will hire more than 200 new employees who will conduct inspections of dealers.

In the south of Afghanistan in the province of Hilmen, militants attacked American troops. According to the NBC channel, a helicopter flew out of their aid, the pilot of which died as a result of the attack, two more American troops were injured. According to representatives of the American command, special forces units participating in the anti -terrorist operation in the Marji area fell under mortar shelling. A medical helicopter was sent to their aid.

NAC Naftogaz Ukraine clarified the situation with the city of Genichesk, the Kherson region, whose mayor, according to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, turned to Vladimir Putin for help due to gas supply interruptions. The mayor said that he did not ask for anything the head of the Russian Federation, but nevertheless, his deputy admitted that the city receives gas from Crimea .

An employee of a police special detachment of quick response (SOBR) "Lynx" tragically died, saving a dog from under the wheels of an electric train. About this case told Interfax the colleagues of the officer. According to them, on January 4, the dog fell on the railway tracks in front of the arrival train on the Novogireevo platform. The officer Sobr 31-year-old Konstantin Volkov, who rushed to save the dog, managed to push her out onto the platform.

The Mendeleev table was replenished with four elements with the 113th, 115th, 117th and 118th atomic numbers, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the website of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry. The elements are assigned temporary names, and permanent will appear in the table after five months. The particular difficulty in obtaining new elements was that they break up into previously unknown isotopes of lighter elements that have yet to be determined.